The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-12
DENIS KEARNEY IN NEW YORK.
He is Still Bothering Himself About
the Chinese Question.

He is Still Bothering Himself About
the Chinese Question.
New YORK, Dec. 10.-One of the charac-
tiers now to be seen in New York is Denis
Kearney, of San Francisco, who came here
few weeks ago to raise the old cry with
which he once stirred up California, "The
Chinese must COP He gets up anti Chinese
letters and interviews with the daily papers.
He recently held an anti-Chinese meeting in
Cooper Union. He is besieging all quarters
with his anti-Chinese appeals. He carried a
bevy of reporters into the Chinese dens,
and it is advertised that he is about to have
a public debate on the subject with Wong
Ching Foo, the clevereSt Chinaman in New
York He has within few weeks raised
more interest in the Chinese question than
has ever before existed here. The interest
in his crusade is increased by the steady
growth of the Chinese element, which now
numbers between 1000 and 5000 men in
New York and Brooklyn. The anti Chinese
crusader declares that this is the paradise to
which millions of Cinnamon are looking,
and that we are in danger of a deluge of
them within the next few years. They are
ready to take up other pursuits besides that
of the laundry, as they have done in Cali
fornia.
There is certainly an extraordinary de-
gree of vim in Kearney's short, thick-set
frame, pugnacious face, belligerent tongue
and rough ways. He will talk Of nothing
but his anti Chinese crusade and his deter
mination to drive all the 'Chinese lepers'
out of the United States before he dies.
He says his object here is to stir the peo-
pie up to demand from Congress the passage
of the Chinese exclusion bill that was intro
duced at the last session. This existing re-
striction law is insufficient. 1t does not, as
a matter of fact, debar the Chinese, who
resort to all sorts of subterfuges in their
anxious attempts to reach this country. He
says that to secure the necessary legislation,
he must raise an anti-Chinese agitation in
the Eastern States, for it is the Eastern
people alone who have stood in the way of
the measures desired upon the Pacific coast
and other parts of the West
There is a good reason to believe that
Kearneys object will be gained and that
the Mitchell bill will become law at the
coming session of Congress- In that event
! there will be no more shiploads of China
men brought into the port of San Francisco
But Denis Kearney's anti-Chinese crusade
will not be ended even then. He is next to
begin his agitation in Canada. He says that
| the Chinese are entering the ports of the
British provinces of the Pacific, from
whence, by the Canadian Pacific railroad
and other lines of transit, they are conveyed
TO our borders, over Wnlcn Jney cross at
their own convenience Hence it is impera-
tive that Chinese exclusion act should be
passed through the Parliament of the New
Dominion at Ottawa. kearney will devote
himself to the securing of this legislation in
Canada as soon as the Mitchell bill is en-
acted by Congress.
Certainly this man Kearney has shown an
amazing pertinacity of purpose since first
he began his antl-Chinese crusade in San
Francisco a dozen years ago.
JOHN SwINToN.